President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will from tomorrow Tuesday December 4 2018 begin a 3 day tour of the greater Accra region. Minister for information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the president will commission and cut sod for various projects including the James Town fishing harbour, the Accra-Achimota and Accra-Tema railway line, the modern astro turf […]
Category: Politics
NDC race: Rawlings back aspirants fighting NDC over high filing fees, says only corrupt people can afford it
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed concerns about the whopping increase in the filing fee of flag bearer-aspirants of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and called on the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to take a second look at the decision. The Founder of the NDC cautioned that certain actions or decisions could either […]
I will not sit in the office for anyone to come and lie to me that everything is fine-Akufo-Addo
Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has revealed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has indicated that he will not be an armed chair president who will sit in the office and rely on information being fed him by appointees. According to him, the president is bent on getting onto the field to ascertain the […]
Just in: I will not file my nomination if NEC doesn’t reduce the 420k filing fee-Bagbin
Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential aspirant, Alban Bagbin has indicated that he will not file his nomination to contest the flagbearership slot of the party if the National Executive Council (NEC) refuses to review the filing fees of 400 thousand Ghana cedis downwards. ‘’It is not that I cannot mobilise the money, but I […]
Just in: NDC officially opens nomination for flagbearership race today
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will from this morning [Monday], open nominations the flagbearership race ahead of the primary slated for January 19, 2019. The aspirants are expected to pay an amount of GH¢ 20,000 for picking the nomination forms and GH¢ 400,000 for the filing fee. Aspirants including John Dramani Mahama, Sylvester Mensah, Goosie […]
Photos: meet Villey Acheampong the young Entrepreneur who looks set to take over the NPP Subin seat in 2020
The Subin Constituency in the Ashanti Region will be one of the keenly contested seats in the 2020 parliamentary elections as one young man who has emerged is bent on snatching the seat from the incumbent Member of Parliament for the constituency Eugene Boakye Antwi has taken the constituency by storm. The young Man is […]
NDC Race: national executives have conspired against us in favour Mahama-Spio Garbrah cries out
One of the aspirants for the presidential candidate slot of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is raising red flags about the activities of the party’s national executives, accusing them of working in favour of former president John Dramani Mahama. According to Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the newly elected national executives have made it abundantly clear […]
Photos: Ledzokuku MP Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye descends into the gutters to help clean up his community
The ruling New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye is perhaps one of the leaders who is really leading by example. Today 1st December 2018, he joined the people of the constituency at Teshie Tsuibleoo to clean up the community to mark Sanitation […]
NDC 420k filing fees: Businessman donates 200k to pay for John Mahama-Felix Kwakye Ofosu reveals
It has emerged that ex-President John Mahama will not lose a night’s sleep in his attempt to raise the ‘bounty’ placed on filing for his party’s flagbearership. An appointee in the ex-President’s administration has revealed that a former constituency Chairman who is a successful businessman is paying half of the GH¢400,000. Felix Kwakye Ofosu said besides […]
NDC 420k filing fee: Elikplim Agbemava withdraws from race, cites principles
One of the 13 contenders for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate slot, Elikplim Agbemava has indicated his resolve to back out of the race citing the his social democratic principles. According to him, he prefers to go on the side of those who still holds the values and tenets of the NDC sacred […]
USA: Former President George Bush Snr. Dies at 94
Former President George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died Friday at 94. Bush, 93, was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital in April after “contracting an infection that spread to his blood,” according to a statement from Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath. Bush suffered from a form of Parkinson’s disease and had been hospitalized […]
NDC 420k filing fee: my team and I will decide whether to go ahead or not-Spio-Garbrah
Former Minister for Trade and Industry and NDC presidential hopeful candidate, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has intimated that he will consult his team on the way forward, going into the party’s presidential primaries which has been slated for 19th January 2019. This comes on the back of the decision by the Party’s National Executive Council (NEC) […]